UX is a great career for designers who want to work on interesting challenges and have a real effect on the success of a product. However, maybe you are considering what else you can do with your UX skills. You may be considering making the move from individual contributor to management. UX definitely has come a long way in respect to how much influence it brings to the table, but it doesn’t always provide enough of a career path into upper management. That’s one reason you may want to consider moving from UX into product management.

Christian Crumlish can give you more reasons you may want to consider moving from UX to product management because he has done just that. He’s got a lot of sound advice for anyone thinking of taking on a product management role. If you have a strong background in UX, you likely have a lot of the skills needed to become a product manager.

In this seminar, Christian explains why you might want to move to product management and how to make the transition if you do.

Define product management and determine why you may want to be a PM

Consider the reasons to transition from UX work to product management

Differentiate project management and product management

Map your UX skills to product management

Discover the kinds of decision PMs need to make and why they expect to be wrong sometimes

Assess your skills with a histogram and see what applies to product management

Examine the other two circles of technology and business

Live in the area where UX, tech, and business overlap

Expand your knowledge of technology and business

Collaborate effectively with engineers

Become more familiar with agile scrum rituals and engineering sprints

Get results by speaking the lingo and being persuasive

Watch this seminar to learn how and why you might want to move to PM or just how to better collaborate with product managers.

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Why Christian ?

Christian Crumlish has a decade's experience leading product teams, with several decades of UX success behind that. He hosts the Design in Product community, which explores the overlap between UX design and product management. He is also a mentor at Code for America and StartX, and a fellow in the Rosenfeld Media Experts network. Christian earned an AB at Princeton in philosophy, where he graduated sine laude.

Formerly, he was head of product at 7 Cups, winner of the 2016 Stanford Medicine X Prize for health systems design and the 2019 World Economic Forum Pioneer award. He has also co-chaired the monthly BayCHI program, was a director of product at CloudOn, was director of messaging products for AOL (AIM), was the last curator of the Yahoo design pattern library, and served two terms as a director of the late lamented Information Architecture Institute.